Gianluca Lorenzini

Cartier Tank

Cartier Tank Watch

Chet Baker appears to be wearing a decidedly un-round Cartier Tank watch in this photo from 1953. The musician was the irreverent iconoclast of the mid-century jazz explosion and the rebel of the Ivy-styled Jazz era. It’s only fitting that he’d wear a watch that similarly broke with the standards of the day, going from classic circular case to a squared-off, streamlined look.